Helplessness is a mighty power.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Our sincere tears can touch our sinless saviour, to change our sinful life.

Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.

The best plans are always the simplest.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Love will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.